The Ambitious (1970)
幕末
The Restoration of Meiji
The story of Ryoma Sakamoto, considered to be the architect behind the downfall of the Tokugawa shogunate. He was considered an outlaw by his own clan, hunted by his government, and was despised by supporters of the Shogun as well as the Loyalists for desiring the opening of Japan to the West in order to learn its technology, in the hopes of one day defeating the West with a modern army and navy.
- Date of release
- 1970-02-14
- TMDB
- 7.3 / 10 (13)
- Runtime
- 2h 0m
- Genres
- Action, Adventure, Drama
- Director
- Daisuke Itō
Casting
- Kinnosuke Nakamura — Ryoma Sakamoto
- Toshirō Mifune — Shojiro Goto
- Keiju Kobayashi — Yoshinosuke Saigo
- Tatsuya Nakadai — Shintaro Nakaoka
- Sayuri Yoshinaga — Oryo
- Katsuo Nakamura — Chojiro Kondo
- Noboru Nakaya — Hanheita Takeichi
- Eitarō Matsuyama — Umanosuke Shinmiya
- Shigeru Kōyama — Kaishu Katsu
- Shinsuke Mikimoto — Kogoro Katsura
- Akihiko Katayama — Toranosuke Nakahira
- Terumi Niki — Mitsukazu Nakadaira
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